I'm tired of hearing about bots

[Archadius]

I don't have time to read through the whole thread so please stop with this "troll this, troll that" banter. Really.

You don't need to read the whole thread, just the same page you pulled the quote from. It was explained right after. It's just plain ignorance.

[HiirNoivl]

SE may think that it's a sign of the problems with FFXIV that a lot of people would rather pretend to play (or pretend to play certain aspects of the game like FSH) than actually be in their seat. Maybe, they hope, after many of the problems that people perceive and whine about in the game are fixed, people will stop cheating and botting and players will actually play and the towns will become alive with more than the sound of 24 hour crafting noise.

However, cheaters will cheat no matter how the game is made and no matter how many people like it. It doesn't matter if it's free or pay to play. The truth is allowing botters to exist encourages otherwise honest players to bot and THAT'S what the real harm is. I hope SE is keeping track of botters and will dispose of them once they feel comfortable and they don't feel like they need to prop up their server statistics. I also hope that honest players will get to test out open PVP on obvious botters. I'd live to nail a naked fisher/alchemist hidden in a Coerthas cave with my Lominsan Bhuj.

[Archadius]

SE may think that it's a sign of the problems with FFXIV that a lot of people would rather pretend to play (or pretend to play certain aspects of the game like FSH) than actually be in their seat. Maybe, they hope, after many of the problems that people perceive and whine about in the game are fixed, people will stop cheating and botting and players will actually play and the towns will become alive with more than the sound of 24 hour crafting noise.

However, cheaters will cheat no matter how the game is made and no matter how many people like it. It doesn't matter if it's free or pay to play. The truth is allowing botters to exist encourages otherwise honest players to bot and THAT'S what the real harm is. I hope SE is keeping track of botters and will dispose of them once they feel comfortable and they don't feel like they need to prop up their server statistics. I also hope that honest players will get to test out open PVP on obvious botters. I'd live to nail a naked fisher/alchemist hidden in a Coerthas cave with my Lominsan Bhuj.

...and I'll be right beside you with Dark Seal II + Bloodrite II + Shadowsear.

[Wynn]

I'm tired of seeing new threads complaining about bots.

[PrettyPrincess]

This ^ .

[Ragz]

This ^ .

Thumb up for Kalafina

[PrettyPrincess]

Thumb up for Kalafina

OMG YES .

[HiirNoivl]

Actually the boards complaining about bots aren't all that common. This is because of the sheer amount of people who do it/have done it. If botting weren't so common, you'd see a lot more posts about it and its effects on the game, oddly enough. However, because it IS so common, it's more popular to ignore the problem and address something else such as the server/client relationship or manlier swimsuits.

[SirEdeonX]

It's hard when they don't even google "ffxiv bot" and demand the closing of all the sites providing them. I think this should be the first step - to cut the source.

Second of all, analysing the existant bots and launch a patch that would rend them useless.

Last but not least, have 1 GM per server for like, 1 day a week, travel through all the camps and cities to check for bots.